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    It is not the case that Ontological pluralism is warranted: all entities, whatever their type, demand the same careful ontological scrutiny.

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    • 1.Some entities (numbers, fictional objects, shadows) have derivative or diminished being that disqualifies them from full ontological parity with concrete particulars.
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    • 2.Meinong's distinction between Sein and Sosein, and Quine's criterion of ontological commitment, both show that 'demanding scrutiny' is not equivalent to having equivalent ontological status.
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    • 3.Treating all posited entities as equally genuine collapses the distinction between what exists and what merely subsists, undermining the explanatory work ontology is supposed to do.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the pros hen equivocity of being holds that substance is the primary sense of being, and other categories are beings only by reference to it.
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    • 2.If being is said in many ways with a focal meaning, then existentially dependent entities like qualities or relations do not warrant the same ontological scrutiny as substances—they warrant derivative scrutiny.
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    • 3.The claim that all entities demand the *same* careful scrutiny conflates methodological thoroughness with ontological egalitarianism, an error that obscures real asymmetries in the structure of being.
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    • 1.All ontological differences are categorial articulations of being, not differences between being and non-being.
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    • 2.Existentially dependent entities are as ontologically genuine as existentially independent ones.
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